| Overall: | C+ |
|---|---|
| Violence: | D |
| Sexual Content: | B |
| Language: | D |
| Drugs/Alcohol: | C |
| Run Time: | 157 |
| Theater Release: | |
| Video Release: | 19 Mar 2013 |
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After watching a movie with your children or students, we encourage parents and teachers to look for education opportunities to teach with movies. Here are a few discussion topics that can help with lesson plans or teaching in the home.
How do you feel about the timing of this movie’s release? Are there issues in creating movies about real world events so soon after they happen? Do you think this movie would be classified as fiction or non-fiction? How can you know for sure? What are the risks of facts being distorted in a movie of this nature?
In an interview with CBS News, director Kathryn Bigelow corrects an interviewer who uses the word “torture” with the term “enhanced interrogation.” Does this remark reveal anything about Bigelow’s attitude toward the use of these techniques to extract information? Do you think it reveals anything about her attitude about the CIA?
You can read a detailed account of the real operation in the UK newspaper “The Guardian”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/12/death-osama-bin-laden-us
For more information of the people and events that inspired this movie, click here:
Osama bin Laden: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_Laden
al-Qaeda: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda
9/11 Attacks: http://www.history.com/topics/9-11-timeline
Death of Osama bin Laden: http://www.historyinanhour.com/2012/03/10/osama-bin-laden/
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About the Reviewer: Rod Gustafson
Rod Gustafson has worked in various media industries since 1977. He founded Parent Previews in 1993, and today continues to write and broadcast the reviews in newspapers, on radio and (of course) on the Internet. He currently serves as the President of the Alberta Association for Media Awareness, a provincial non-profit society. He also authors a regular column for The Parent's Television Council in Los Angeles. He and his wife Donna have four children.
